Example sentences of "can [adv] not [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence of consent can obviously not be pleaded as it can be and generally is for rape . |
| 2 | Providing services of all these kinds — and in this way also helping to supplement the personal tending work usually done gratuitously by relatives responding to the emotional bonds and obligations of kinship — can clearly not be accomplished without the expenditure of resources , human and material ( Abrams 1978 : 67 ) . |
| 3 | A bait cast amongst them can often not be resisted . |
| 4 | These lessons from Ireland can surely not be ignored by any small British party seeking fair and reliable PR . |
| 5 | Such personal comments can however not be taken up in a professional staff support group , being outside its brief and scope which differ from those of a personal therapy group . |
| 6 | It can therefore not be articulated on its own ; it must be spoken through the language of the symbolic , just as in Bakhtin 's ‘ dialogic ’ conception of parody one voice speaks through another which it seeks to undermine . |
| 7 | But the idea — current indeed in Anglican circles until the last century — that Jesus ‘ ordained ’ twelve men ( who became the first ‘ bishops ’ ) , who subsequently laid their hands on the heads of others , and so forth down to the present day , can certainly not be allowed to stand . |